(Give it a second. Theeere it is.)On the other hand, he might be bleeding demised. You know, ceased-to-be. Expired and gone to meet his maker. Stiff, bereft of life, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This may, in fact, be an EX clown.

Or he's just resting.

Well, no matter; here's a clown with a full LOAD of...uh...exuberance:

It's also World Breastfeeding Week. Oh, wait, I probably don't want to see what the wreckies would come up with for that...

Or maybe I do. Booby cakes are funny.

wv: fings. This is funny, because they actually offer fings as an off-menu item at Burger King here. Half order of fries, half order of onion rings. And they were talking about it on the radio this morning. How serendipitous!

I hate you. I hate you so much. The only thing worse than these clowns is the zombie clown from Zombieland. Ugh.If I opened up a cake box and saw any one of these clowns leering at me, I'd have to be sedated.

maybe #2 is drunk. he looks awfully content. and the last one--wow, what a bargain! $3.50! though that doesn't look like an original price tag. maybe they had buyer's remorse and tried to resell it at a discount.

I am appalled to admit that when I looked at #3, I didn't see "dead tired". Instead, I saw a super creepy clown lying down on a soft bed of cake waiting for the cameras to start rolling, if you know what I mean... I think it's the pedo smile on his face that did it. :(

As if clowns weren't creepy enough, people have to put them on cakes where those terrifying white faces and too-wide grins can judge you as you eat their bodies...why, why, WHY do people think clowns are cute?

I think the 'cross-eyed' one (har har) is actually kind of cute and non-scary...which is an achievement in clown anything. ESPECIALLY since it's a CCC! (ptooi!)

Dead Parrot FTW!

My stepmom has been a semi-pro clown for a long time, and she collects clown memorabilia. Most of her stuff is non-scary, thank goodness. She gets my dad to clown with her, which is hilarious. I think she'd probably enjoy these cakes, even if they are on the wrecky side.

I SERIOUSLY hate clowns. I have clown hatred. I despise them. If I saw one on the road, I'd have to actively restrain myself from ploughing him down with my car... I HATE CLOWNS. If someone gave me those scary-ass cakes, I'd make them eat it while punching their head.

I've never understood the fear/hatred of clowns. I think I must never have gotten close to one as a child. But if I'd been faced with these cakes in childhood, I can imagine developing said fear/hatred.

Kinda bummed that two people beat me to "pinin' for the fjords". At least I got a cool WV: strain. Nuff said.

P.S. Sometimes people in on-line forums will write that the phobia of clowns is also known by a technical term, "coulrophobia", but this word doesn't seem to have any plausible etymology, and there's little evidence that it really exists except as something people pass around as a bit of trivia.

This post makes me wonder if it's even possible to make a clown cake that isn't creepy. I thought about Pennywise throughout the entire post.

I hate to go all grammar goon on you, but you hit on one of my pet peeves... Those would be severed heads. The body has been decapitated. The head has been severed. There's no such thing as a decapitated head.

I dislike clowns so much that when I took the Wilton course for cake decorating, I searched the web for any type of pick to place on top of the icing "body". I was successful and made creepy leprachauns instead. Score!

... I never thought of clown cars in terms of TARDIS's before, and yet suddenly it makes sense. Add that to the list of People Who Are Secretly Time Lords. Another person who makes this list is Mary Poppins (what? She's got the lamp in the bag... there's no way she isn't...).

For the mass populus, clowns are scary. This may be, in fact, a wreckoraters attempt to make clowns look less frightening. So where is the cake clown car to pack all the dead clowns into so we can make just one trip to the cemetary?

Ok I say Pennywise from IT got those clowns and killed them all in a variety of painful ways lol. Which leaves me here hiding under my bed with a flyswatter pretending it is a shotgun.. that movie and clowns now give me the creeps.

You know, I am just as creeped out by clowns as The Boob Nazi and many others who listed themselves "Anonymous" (and for good reason that they did!) but the fact that all of these bright cheery clowns are dead somehow makes it all better.

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